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What Not Having Mental Imagery Implies for Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Our Sense of Self ↳
My absence of images does not foreclose imagination. Images can impose themselves—in dreams, in flashes—nor does it eliminate attachment or feeling, though it may alter their texture. There is, perhaps, something to be said for a degree of blurriness in memory: a softening of edges that allows one to forgive others, and oneself. (I also eventually remembered more in psychoanalysis.) But this raises an unsettling question: If much of what we take to be memory, selfhood, even desire is bound up with images—what happens when those images are not there?
Two Great Books on Therapy and Parenting
The Gardener and the Carpenter I read a butt load of parenting books and this is probably my favourite one since reading Cribsheet. The Gardener and the Carpenter...Feelings
I have been reading and thinking a lot about feelings and emotions recently. I feel that societally there isn't much normalization about talking about feelings — people express...I was thinking: I wish there was a yoga equivalent for feelings, but maybe that is therapy? ↳